Hi Druv I have implemented a version using kryo for Vectors in Mahout. I haven't tested it yet, I'm still working on the Elkan's optimization for k-means (lately my spare time is very low). If you wish I could open a Mahout issue and attach that implementation (code and pom dependencies), so you can give it a look.
Gustavo On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]>wrote: > > On May 29, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Dhruv Kumar wrote: > > > Good discussion. While I'd like to play around with Avro some other time > as > > it is very interesting, I'll stick with Writables for this project > because > > everything else in Mahout uses them. > > > > Here are some benchmarking results for different serialization > frameworks, > > including Avro: > > https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki > > Seems to me like kyro and protostuff (not protobuff) are the big winners in > that one. Avro's competitive on size, but not time. Granted, one should > never read too much into benchmarks, but... > > Both kyro and protostuff have friendly licenses. > > -Grant
